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Code Prettify

Description

Uses a customized version of the Code Prettify library to support local styles and scripts. Plugin applies code highlighting automatically to all <pre> tags on the page.

Compatible with Gutenberg and doesn’t lock you in with specific markup requirements.

Development

Plugin development on GitHub.

Credits

Created and maintained by Kaspars Dambis. All of my open source work is available on GitHub.

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Cover photo by Yuri Samoilov

Screenshots

  • Syntax highlighting applied to a <pre> block and inline <code> segments.

Installation

Simply upload the plugin and active it. It works out of the box and doesn’t have any configuration options.

FAQ

None, yet.

Reviews

March 30, 2022
Used with a block-based theme and it worked perfectly. Love that there is no configuration required and it auto-detects <code> and <pre> tags. Great plugin, thank you!
July 26, 2021
Your plugin makes me very secure and happy to use because it doesn’t make me dependent, I can disable it without affecting the articles. Good job. I just hope you can keep the plugin up to date to be compatible with new versions of WordPress. Thank you!
April 26, 2020
This plugin is exactly what I was looking for, just one friendly suggestion please add a toggle to switch themes to dark. or add a setting where we can do that. thank a lot for this neat and clean plugin
November 13, 2019
Finally a plugin that works with the outdated “Crayon Syntax Highlighter” plugin So I don’t have to mess around with every post.
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Contributors & Developers

“Code Prettify” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Interested in development?

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Changelog

1.5.1 (November 8, 2021)

  • Fix the deprecation notice for how the data is passed to the script.
  • Mark as tested with WordPress 5.8.

1.5.0 (April 19, 2020)

  • Preload the prettify.css file for performance improvements.
  • Add WordPress coding standards checks.
  • Add support for Composer install.

1.4.2 (January 14, 2019)

  • Switch to legacy PHP array syntax for better compatibility.

1.4.1 (December 21, 2018)

  • Add a trailing semicolon to all JS files to support concatenation.

1.4.0 (December 20, 2018)

  • Update the Prettify library.
  • Don’t highlight standalone <code> blocks without the <pre> wrapper.
  • Mark as tested with WordPress 5.0.

1.3.4

  • Update the Prettify library.
  • Ensure that Prettify styles are applied to the contents of <pre> and <code> elements.

1.3.3

  • Update the Prettify library.
  • Highlight <code> blocks too.

1.0

  • Initial release.